(The authoress wakes up with her Pomeranian at her side, surrounded by darkness)
Me: Ricky, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!
Ricky: *blinks*
Me: Well, readers, while I try to figure out where we ended up, please read on. (picks up Ricky) C'mon, boy. Lets see if this place has a directory.
Reviewer Thanks
Fangface the Second: Nope. Pretty much somewhere worse. :p
Disclaimer: As if being sucked into an unknown location wasn't bad enough, I do not own Fangface. OH THE INHUMANITY!
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Vincent looked up at the sky, making sure the portal and the dark-hearted sorceress were gone, then turned to the two youths beside him. "Is everyone alright?" he asked.
"Everyone except whoever got sucked into that huge portal." The teenager of the trio said.
In the middle of the street lied the shotgun Hunter had grabbed from Timothy… who picked it up and aimed it point-blank in Vincent's face. "Where did you send my family, who murderer?" he snarled.
*Bap!*
"YEOW! Ow, ow, ow, OW!" Timothy dropped the gun and grabbed his shin, jumping around on one leg.
"You leave him alone, you jerk!" The little boy of Vincent's trio snapped after kicking Timothy. He heard a snarl and Kiff tackled him. "Ow! Hey! Get off me!"
"Not until you bring my parents back! All four of 'em!" Kiff snapped back as they began to wrestle.
"Guys, GUYS! Ease down!" Alyx snapped, breaking up the fight. "There's a less-violent way to settle this…" she then grabbed Vincent by the shirt-collar and yanked him face-to-face, her eyes glowing red with hatred. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DAD, YOU HEARTLESS FREAK?"
"What makes you think I'm responsible for any of this?" Vincent sneered, shoving her away and brushing himself off. "I didn't steal a scythe and open a portal!"
"You're in cahoots with the ones who did, though!" Timothy yelled, still rubbing his shin.
"What's the matter, Vincent? Couldn't take down any werewolves with guns, so you resulted in using dark-magic?" William sneered.
"Are you insane? I kill evil creatures, not join sides with them!" Vincent argued.
"Funny… I recall you joining a kretin in his plans to take over the toon-world and real-world." Lamone scoffed, approaching as he brushed himself off. "But, sadly children, I'm afraid Vincent is telling the truth."
"What?" The others gasped.
"Ha ha! You were wrong!" The teenager in Vincent's trio laughed, pointing his finger in Timothy's face.
"How do you know?" William asked.
"I saw Vincent and these other two running about during the chaos," Lamone explained. "Rather than trying to attack us, they were attacking Marlow." he rubbed his chin, looking at the werewolf hunter. "My question is… why?"
"Lets just say Marlow and I haven't been agreeing on any terms," Vincent said, bitterly.
"W-What exactly is g-g-going on h-here?" Stutz stammered as he, Toni, and Luca stepped out of the alley. "Who IS t-this g-guy?"
"His name is Vincent Fondane," Toni explained, glowering at the werewolf hunter. "My cousin and his friends threw him in jail- twice- after what he did to Hunter and Brielle. And now…" she grabbed him by the shirt-collar, glaring deeply into his eyes. "I want to know everything YOU know about what just happened to them!"
There was a low rumble in the sky, which alarmed everyone. "Not here. We must find a more solitary shelter," Vincent said.
"I know a place. Come along," Lamone said, leading them down the street, though the others didn't keep their eyes off Vincent or his accomplices.
"By the way, who ARE you guys?" Luca asked.
"My name is Brody." the little boy said.
"I'm Benny," the teenager said.
"Alright, Benny and Brody… what are you two doing running amuck with THIS creep?" Blackrose asked with a sneer.
"We-"
"WHOA!" Brody exclaimed, pausing and studying Blackrose. "Are you a werewolf? Wow, I never saw one so small before."
"So she's little. What's so surprising about it?" Kiff scoffed.
"Not much I guess, except she's really cute."
"Brody!" Vincent said firmly, and Brody ran up to his side, hanging his head low. "For the last time, don't get so close to those beasts."
"And think twice before calling me 'cute' again!" Blackrose snarled, then quietly giggled. "He thinks I'm cute."
"Don't get so flattered, Blacky." Kiff whispered. "He's with a werewolf-hunter. We can't trust him."
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The group came across a church four blocks down. Unlike the rest of the town, the church was still standing. Everyone went inside and sat near the altar, a few candles lit to give them a little light. "Alright you three. Talk." Alyx said to Vincent, Brody, and Benny.
Vincent sighed, mostly out of irritation. "I guess it started a long time ago…" he began.
~Flashback Time Once Again!~
"Marlow and I used to be on the same team… but always played by different rules." Vincent narrated. "I didn't realize it until after we broke out of prison."
Marlow and Vincent stood in the middle of the woods, as Marlow kept throwing his knives and pinning them into tree trunks. "Stupid meddlers… we were so CLOSE!" he snarled as he ripped his knives out. "I thought for sure we'd have finished them off."
Vincent sat there, rubbing his chin, knowing that Marlow was referring to the fight back at the hidden lair by the Santa Cruz river, after FF2 had beaten Skeith and Jennifer's plans were foiled, along with his own. "Things don't always go as planned…" Vincent said, being deep in thought, remembering how Vincent had slit that 'Brelyn' girl's throat… only to realize too late it was Brielle. He couldn't believe he didn't recognize her as a young child- he had pretty much raised her as a child!
"We'll have to try again… this time we'll kill those damn creatures on-sight AND those stupid kids they hang around with, too!" Marlow kept saying.
Vincent cringed a bit, but didn't let Marlow see. "Marlow… have you ever considered just killing the werewolves and just letting the teenagers go free? I mean, it's not like they'll have much defense without those beasts on their side."
Marlow only let out a scoff. "Oh, please. You remember how that short kid had managed to change into a werewolf. If he can do that, the rest of them could! …Especially your old accomplice, who you let join our enemies and marry one of those beasts!"
Vincent glowered, scowling at him. "I wasn't able to DO anything! I tried to separate them after my third encounter with Hunter, and the two of us would have gotten away if her little 'lover' hadn't jumped me! Do you honestly think I wanted her to spend the rest of her life with a boy who hung around werewolves?"
"You COULD have done something, Vincent…" Marlow took out a switchblade, clicking the button and making the blade pop out. "You could have KILLED HIM!" on 'killed him', he threw the knife, making it stick into a tree, inches from Vincent's face.
Vincent only sneered. "You know I wouldn't dare harm a human-being. It's against our code!"
"Code schmode! Wake up and smell the coffee, Vincent! It's them, or us! After my wretched 'son' took out the rest of the Veni-Con-Yei, we're not going to last any longer! We're the last ones, Vincent… and I don't plan on going down without a fight."
"I told you… I left that group long ago!"
"Whatever. We've got to take them out, whether a few humans get killed or not!"
"I could see it in his eyes that he had gone mad… and I knew I had to stop him."
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Marlow." Vincent said, pulling out a gun, shooting at him.
But Marlow was quick and dodged the shot, then took out his own guns and shot at him. Both of them shot at each other, threw knives at one another, and when they ran out of weapons to use they battled in hand-to-hand combat. Vincent managed to tackle Marlow and pin him to the ground, but Marlow planted his feet into his stomach and kicked him off, grabbing a knife off the ground and ready to stab him.
"I thought he was going to kill me right then and there. Luckily, I wasn't completely alone."
*Bam!*
A large, black-furred were-cat lunged out of nowhere and punched Marlow, making him fly back and slam into a tree. "Damn, (hiss) normally criminals get into brawls in prison." the were-cat said.
Marlow stood up, glowering as he reached for his gun. "You're going to wish you hadn't done that…" he snarled.
The were-cat let out a jaguar-like roar and lunged at Marlow, tackling him into the bushes. Vincent stood up and decided, since Marlow was distracted at the moment, to take off.
"I let the cat-creature have its fun, and ran off into the woods."
~End of Flashback!~
"…I never let Marlow out of my sight since then," Vincent continued. "I kept an eye on him, making sure he never fulfilled any of his plans." he sighed and hung his head low. "Unfortunately, he had managed to cover up his tracks this time… and this time his plan was a success, and I had failed."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up!" Alyx said. "You mean to say you're part of the Veni-Con-Yei?"
"What's the Venice-Co-whatever?" Toni asked, arching an eyebrow.
"The Veni-Con-Yei is an underground group of werewolf-hunters… at least, it used to be until Kite came around and exposed them." Vincent said. "And, yes, I USED to be part of the group… until I saw what their work: killing innocent lives for their game."
"Human lives?" William asked, slyly.
Vincent sighed. "No… also werewolf lives."
"Well, you can tell it's the end of the world when Vincent Fondane calls werewolves 'innocent'." Timothy scoffed.
Vincent glared at him and he piped down. "I don't count werewolves as 'innocent' until they prove it to me. (sigh) After a while, they decided wiping out lycanthropes wasn't enough, and began to kill off anyone who was close to a werewolf. I didn't know about it until years later, and that's when I grabbed Brielle and left the clan."
"Whoa, hold it. Brielle- my mom- was a werewolf-hunter too?" Kiff gasped, shocked.
"More of a trainee. We didn't allow any of our minors to start hunting werewolves until their 16th year, and she was 14 when I quit the group." he sighed and hung his head low. "Unfortunately, you were never allowed to quit the Veni-Con-Yei. There was only one way out…"
"What was that?" Luca asked.
"Death."
Stutz gave Luca a look. "Y-You had to a-ask, d-didn't you?" he muttered.
"So, what did you do?" Alyx asked.
Vincent sighed. "I took Brielle with me wherever I went, training her in self-defense in case we ever encountered the group… That's when I made the mistake about telling her I was a werewolf hunter. She thought I was crazy and just took off." he said.
"(grr) Anyone who hunts werewolves is crazy," William scoffed… only, it was his werewolf-half, Kaiser. Alyx nudged him to keep quiet.
"The Veni-Con-Yei happened to know about it, and used it against me. If I was to quit their group, they would kill Brielle… I had no choice but to give in. They sent me to hunt down a family of werewolves in Texas… i.e Hunter's family."
Blackrose let out a growl, remembering her mother's story about her encounter with Vincent and how he tried to kill her parents. …So she was shocked when she saw him wincing.
"I did as they told me. I trapped the werewolves in their house, and killed two of them- Hunter's parents." he sighed, shaking his head. "Sometimes I wish that I just let them kill me, instead."
"So why didn't you," Blackrose scoffed, and Kiff nudged her.
"Because that would be a result in failure… and if I failed, they would kill Brielle." he clenched his fists. "Although, if I had known that Fangface was coming, I wouldn't have bothered."
"What do you mean?" William asked.
"The Veni-Con-Yei wouldn't let me leave the area until I made sure every werewolf was killed. If they knew I left without completing my task, they would…"
"Kill Brielle. Yeah, we got that part," Toni interrupted. Lamone gave her a glare and bopped her on the head. "Ow! What?"
"As I was saying… I waited around until Hunter came back… and that's when Fangface and those other meddlers arrived. I tried to scare them off with my threats, but they remained with Hunter. …I was surprised at their loyalty, even after I stabbed Hunter- oh, don't give me that look, Blackrose! She healed, didn't she? …Anyway, I fled the house, knowing that those human kids would get to me, and I stuck to my oath to never kill a human, whether they were with a werewolf or not." he shook his head again. "I was given another chance to capture Hunter, after telling the group about Fangface, and I decided to capture the werewolves AND lure Brielle back to me by stealing a Silver Crest that belonged to her family."
Lamone rubbed his chin, recalling a faint memory of a silver crest hanging on the wall in a living room…
"My plan backfired when Hunter beat me and I was thrown in jail. Luckily, Brielle arrived and released me, so I was relieved to know that half of my plan worked… but not as well. I knew I had to keep Brielle close to me, but couldn't let her know that the Veni-Con-Yei was tracing her. I threatened to kill her if she left, after giving the group the message that I'd try to get her to join us- though it was a lie. The real plan was to flee the country under false names and 'disappear' from the Veni-Con-Yei for good. But that plan backfired as well when…"
"My mom met my dad." Kiff answered.
"Exactly, and I figured the Veni-Con-Yei had killed Brielle after I was sent back to jail... and I began to wonder why I even bothered to try to keep her alive... knowing it would have been better if I never told her. We'd be safe somewhere..."
"And my grandparents would still be alive..." Blackrose muttered.
Vincent sighed. "I remained in sorrow for years after that. …That's when Marlow returned, telling me about his plan to wipe out Fangface and his friends. My new task was to kidnap his sons and bring them to his hide-out." he looked at Timothy. "I had kidnapped Timothy first, and that's when I found out Marlow had a new 'gift': the ability to make copies of others and force them to do his will. He made your copy kill itself… right in front of your dad."
"(hurk) I could have lived my life without knowing that…" Timothy said, stunned.
"I know, it was dreadful. That's why I knocked you out and snuck you out of the hideout, telling Marlow that you somehow escaped. He was angry, but told me I could make it up to him by fetching your other brother. I managed to catch Kite, planning on sending him somewhere, but that idiot vampire, Edwin, showed up and knocked me out and took him away, instead."
"Hey, that 'idiot' is my dad!" Alyx snapped.
"And you have my pity. …Anyway, I went after your other brother and kidnapped him, but had him sent to an orphanage in California- the one place the Veni-Con-Yei never go."
"How come?" Luca asked.
"The property values suck and everything was too damn expensive."
"Ah."
"Hold it… you said you had to catch my 'other' brother." Timothy said, his eyes wide. "Kite was my only brother (adopted, but still my brother)… wasn't he?"
"No… You see, you both were very young when you got separated, so you couldn't remember each other too well."
"I have another big brother?" Blackrose gasped, then squealed. "Ooh, is he a werewolf like me? Huh? Huh? Is he?"
"No, he isn't. Actually, while I was monitoring Timothy to make sure he was alright- I had sent him to an orphanage on the coast as well, while he had amnesia- I found out Marlow had tracked your brother down and was training him to become a werewolf-hunter… Just to throw some irony in his revenge against your father. His plan failed when I kidnapped him and taught him how to be a real hunter."
Benny chuckled. "Boy, Marlow must've been pretty mad!" he said, then leaned back. "So tell me, Vincent, who's the son-of-a-werewolf sap that you took in, and how come Brody and I never met him?"
"You never met the 'sap' Benny, because you already know him."
Under the rim of his hat, Benny arched an eyebrow. "Really? Who?"
Vincent pulled off Benny's hat. He had shaggy chocolate-brown hair, brown eyes… and looked exactly like Timothy! "You."
Timothy's jaw hit the floor at this point.
"Oh no… not another one…" Lamone groaned, covering his face with his hands.
"You mean…" Benny gasped.
"I have a BROTHER?" Timothy and Benny both exclaimed.
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A/N: Well, folks, once again I leave you shocked, baffled, and hopefully rolling on the floor laughing. (looks around dark room) Now, if only I could find a way out of here. As I continue to look, please review, but don't-
*a trap door opens beneath the authoress and she falls*
FlaaaAAAAAAUUGH!
*thud!*
Ow...